Teacher/Pizza Guy.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- I -- Oh, Splotch of Blue Paint -- It's strange -- Today for the first time I notice -- Making the first milkshake -- My daughter can't find her field hockey jersey -- Who stole the remote? -- Dough tray -- Something extra -- II -- Classroom door open -- The upside-down remote-control doorstop -- Purveyor of pies -- I don't take yearbook photos anymore -- Marty blows up -- Wrong city ghazal -- Karma's a fuckin' bitch -- Leonard says his poems got rejected from the youth literary magazine -- Unworthy -- I'd be lying -- The manager talks about getting engaged -- III -- The crime -- IV -- Young man, take your headphones out -- Territories -- Emma broke her friend's arm by hitting her with a pillow -- Sestina for the segregated class -- A colleague says sometimes he thinks anyone who's been married more than five years deserves a medal -- Against automatic hand dryers -- James waves at me in the middle of the night -- Outside the window -- To the driver fired for forging tips on credit card receipts -- Garbage day -- For the 3 a.m. road warriors -- Another school year, another email -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

Explores the emotional and physical labor necessary to work nights as a pizza delivery driver and days as a high school English teacher.

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